Peach cobbler

How does this sound? Hot juicy peaches, gorgeous peach syrup with a soft yet crisp cake throughout. That’s right, it sounds (and is) delightful.

Ingredients:

• 8 ripe peaches, halved, stoned and cut into wedges
• 1 vanilla pod, halved lengthways and seeds scraped out
• Zest of 1 lime
• 40 g soft brown sugar
• Zest and juice of 1 orange
• 2.5 cm fresh ginger, peeled and finely grated

For the cobbler topping

• 40g pine nuts
• 100g self-raising flour
• 50g caster sugar
• Sea salt
• 100 g unsalted butter, chilled
• Icing sugar, to serve (optional)
• Vanilla ice cream, to serve